Improvement in horseshoes



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORGAN CHITTENDEN, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSESHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 114,603, dated October l1, 1864.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORGAN CHITTENDEN, of' Danbury, county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Animal- Shoes; and I do hereby declare that the same is described and represented in the following specifcation and drawings; and to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction, referriug to the drawings, iu which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the iigures.

The nature of this improvement in animalshoes will be fully understood from the specication and drawings. The object desired to be attained by this improvement is to produce a thorough healthy vigorous condition of the (animal) foot. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, the toe end of which is broken off so as to show a section.

A is the animals foot. a is the upper of the shoe. b is the sole of the shoe. c are calks. d are screws or rivets for securing the sole to the upper. e is an instep strap or band made in two parts, one end of each of which is secured to the heel of the upper, and

the other ends are connected and secured together by means of a button, t'. This button, which is secured on the opposite end of one of thebands, maybe made eccentricin form, sothat it may be inserted freely and easily through the orifice in the opposite endof the other portion of the band, and by turning it a halfturn will draw the band, with the shoe, closely and easily to the foot. Various ways or devices may be employed to accomplish this object of closely securing the shoe to the foot; but such devices being so common for various purposes it is not deemed necessary to be fun ther particular.

It will be observed that the upper a is made with an under portion, a', (and, if desirable, may be made to cover the whole under surface of the foot,) so that it may be called the shoe proper. This under portion of the upper is connected at the heel a,to prevent the spreading of the shoe. The heel of the upper also may be connected together, if desirable, but itis believed to be better to have but a partial heel, as shown at a.

It will be seen that by the use of this improvement not only the shoes can be removed easily and at once when desirable, but they canbe repaired at leisure; and one or more spare sets of shoes may be kept in readiness for a change, as circumstances may require. A smooth shoe, or a shoe with calks, may be used; and where the animal is standing for some time, he may have them removed, and thereby greatly conduce to the health and vigor of the animal. Y

I have thus briey endeavored to show the nature, construction, and advantage of my improvement, so as to enab'le a person skilled to make and use the same.

That I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new improved article of manufacture, an animal-shoe, the upper a, band e, and sole b, substantially as and for the purpose as described.

MORGAN CHITTENDEN. [u s] Vitnesses:

G. W. HAMILTON', DAvID B. BOOTH. 

